Harper Tasche's third book of music for the 36-string harp, and his first to use E-flat tuning and full levers (though there are still no lever changes required while playing). These are all original pieces, mostly from his "Provenance" CD and one piece from his CD "The Summoning." These pieces are also well suited to pedal harp (though pedal harp players will need to identify enharmonics and pedal changes in two pieces, noted below). 47 pages, comb-bound. Overall skill level is upper intermediate.

"The Seldom Inn" is written in a bright fingerstyle guitar style using overlapping left and right hand patterns. By accenting certain notes in the pattern, melodic phrases emerge and give the piece a nice linear feeling despite all the busy rhythm. Some big register jumps in the left hand give this a nice bit of challenge as well.

"Sunset Habanera" is a slow, sensual piece to accompany an imaginary evening at the beach... the chord patterns are smooth with a touch of jazz, and the melody makes frequent use of an ornamental turn alternating with some three-finger chords in the right hand.

"Amble & Chat" is a cheerful tune set in sixths, over a rocking octave pattern in the left hand. It's not fast, but the syncopations between melody and accompaniment make this both fun to play and fun to hear. Right and left hands overlap regularly in this piece; it's included in this book of music for 36-string harp, but it was written for the 26-string so you smaller-harp players are welcome to it as well.

"Silly Bear Waltz" has a classic waltz feeling to it, with long and flowing melodic lines and a very danceable accompaniment. It would be perfect to use for wedding reception gigs, restaurants, cocktail parties, corporate functions, and really any sort of background music setting, and it's very enjoyable to play with a lot of room for expression and rubato.

The remaining two pieces in this book form a suite called "Painted Music" and were commissioned to musically reflect two oil paintings by artist Ed Edelstein. (These are the two pieces which may be tricky for pedal harp players; lever players will be able to play the music as-is with no lever changes within the pieces.) "Garden for Two" is a beautifully meditative piece which uses enharmonic lever settings in all but the lowest octave to achieve an almost Debussy-esque sonority. "Best Foot Forward" is an exuberantly chromatic cakewalk that is a whole lot of fun! It includes a 'stand-up bass' solo for left hand etouffez, in the middle of all the playful chromatic stuff for the right hand.